J. C. Dauvin

Jean Claude Dauvin is a Professor at the Marine Wimereux Station, University of Sciences and Technology of Lille (USTL). He works at the Laboratory of Oceanography and Geosciences associated with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). From 1997 to 2005, he has been the Director of the Marine Station and the CNRS laboratory. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in marine environment at the University of Paris VI on the impact of the Amoco Cadiz oil spill on the macrobenthic communities from the western English Channel in 1984. He has been a Researcher at the CNRS at Roscoff for ten years (he got the Bronze Medal in 1984) and a Professor at the Paris National History Museum for seven years. He applies benthic and suprabenthic marine coastal and estuarine ecosystems on the following topics: inventory of marine invertebrates; benthic indicators for coastal and transitional water bodies; long-term survey, production, and role of benthos in the trophic web; knowledge and conservation of marine ecosystems; and integrated coastal zone management (interdisciplinary approach with geographers, jurists, ecologists, ect.). He also works on the taxonomy of amphipods (ampeliscidae) and thepolychaetes and the inventory of marine invertebrates. He has participated in several French and European research programs on coastal ecosystem (COST, MAST, and INTERREG programs). He is a Member of several scientific committees at the CNRS, IFREMER, Environment Ministry, Research Ministry, and French Research Agency. He has been the Director of the regional Seine-Aval program from 2004 to 2006 (160 participants from 40 teams). He was the Editor of three books on marine coastal communities, the place of the natural heritage in integrated coastal zone management, and the North-Atlantic estuaries. He has published more than 300 publications including 125 international peer-reviewed papers. He is also a Member of the Editorial Board of Marine Pollution Bulletin and Cahiers de Biologie Marine.

Biography Updated on 26 October 2009

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